A Montreal-based indie pop outfit brimming with sugary melodies, dance-punk drive and failed romantic overtures.
BY Chris Twomey
For the first time in decades, Van Der Graaf Generator’s Peter Hammill, one of the most singular artists to emerge from the British progressive rock scene, is touring North America.
BY Nick Flanagan
For over 20 years, Nardwuar The Human Serviette and his band of merry garage dwellers The Evaporators have been alternately delighting and beguiling the public.
BY Chris Bilton
Wire have been so far ahead of their time that it’s only now, 30 years into the British band’s irregular career, that their audience are finally catching up to them.
Hailing from Seattle, Washington, The Dead Science are a remarkable post-punk trio whose ambitious sound is drawn from seemingly disparate sources.
Baba Zula hail from Istanbul, psych-folk’s ancestral home. They’re best-known internationally for their musical contributions to Crossing the Bridge (2005), a documentary mapping Istanbul’s musical cross currents, and they’re renowned for their elaborate, ...
A Toronto-based trio carrying riff-heavy boogie rock into the new century.
The Constantines built their rep through steady cross-country barnstorming; these days, though, their name appears less often on the marquee of your local rock club. All part of making the indie band lifestyle more livable, says Cons singer/guitarist Bry ...
Sometimes the craziest ideas blossom into something even their creators never expected.
He’s the guy often credited with discovering Nas. As a member of 1990s trio Main Source (with Toronto brothers and DJs K-Cut and Sir Scratch), New York producer and MC Large Professor gave the then-teenage MC his recording debut on their seminal hip-hop ...